U.S. Workers Rank Retirement Security First: Prudential

New survey results that suggest that the issue may be hotter than job security.

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Prudential Financial Inc. says it has online survey results showing that U.S. workers care even more about retirement security than about many other hot-button public policy issues, such as job security, the minimum wage and the cost of college.

Prudential included retirement security on a list of six economic concerns that might come up this summer as candidates are campaigning for Congress.

Workers who took the survey ranked retirement security as the most interesting economic issue: 80% said they want to hear more from congressional candidates about retirement security.

Prudential released the results as Congress is considering moves to update federal retirement laws.

Prudential wants Congress to make it easier for employers to join together to form multi-employer retirement plans. It also wants Congress to make it easier for workers in retirement plans to use some of the assets to buy lifetime income annuities.

Allison Bell

Allison Bell, ThinkAdvisor's insurance editor, previously was LifeHealthPro's health insurance editor. She has a bachelor's degree in economics from Washington University in St. Louis and a master's degree in journalism from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. She can be reached at abell@alm.com or on Twitter at @Think_Allison.

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